Call for papers for the IIAS Study Group on ‘Coproduction of Public Services’

Nijmegen, 8-9 June 2015

The IIAS Study Group on ‘Coproduction of Public Services’ is organizing its third open meeting. Our aim is to create and nurture an intellectual platform for the theoretical discussion and empirical analysis of coproduction and its implications for the organization and management of public services.

Research Network on Coproduction of Public Services

Earlier meetings organized by the study group in The Hague (2013) and Bergamo (2014) established a small-scale, active, and sustainable network of scholars studying coproduction of public services. The study group provides a forum to discuss challenging research on innovations in public service delivery that include citizen co-production.

At present, special issues in high-ranked international public administration journals are being developed. In addition to these special issues, the study group is exploring the possibility of a book project at the closing of its first three-year (2013-2015) collaboration. The study group aims to further enable close intercontinental collaboration among coproduction scholars, including establishing joint research programs and developing and sharing a database of international case studies and survey data on coproduction.